Re: Better emoji support

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>     >> #*0©®‼⁉↔↩⌚⌨Ⓜ▪▶◀◻☀☂☄☎☑☝☠☢☦☪☮☯☸☺♀♂♈♟♠♣♥♨♻✂✈✒✔✖✝✡✳❄❇❣❤➡🛝🟰🥹🧌🩻🪩🪷🫃🫗🫠🫰
>
> Hmm, I donʼt know why font-use-system-font would affect things
> here. Which font is used instead of Noto Color Emoji?

My default font is used for the chars that it covers, and the rest, huh…

> x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1

"misc-fixed" I guess? 🤷

>     Kévin> In both cases, if I then run:
>
>     >> (set-fontset-font t 'emoji "Noto Color Emoji" nil 'prepend)
>
>     Kévin> and re-run check-emoji-coverage, I get this:
>
>     >> #*0©®🛝🟰🥹🧌🩻🪩🪷🫃🫗🫠🫰
>
> Thatʼs even more suprising. Maybe the set-fontset-font in
> setup-default-fontset needs to be moved slightly later, Iʼll run some
> experiments. <time passes> Yes, the emoji font spec was slightly too
> early. Can you try the patch below?

That does reduce the set of emoji that change when I call
(set-fontset-font t 'emoji "Noto Color Emoji" nil 'prepend); now it's
down to these four, whatever the value of font-use-system-font:

> #*0©®↔♠♣♥🛝🟰🥹🧌🩻🪩🪷🫃🫗🫠🫰
>      ^^^^